Marcha - Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement

Klappentext "Marcha" is a multidisciplinary survey of the individuals! organizations! and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. A city with longstanding historic ties to immigrant activism! Chicago has been the scene of a precedent-setting immigrant rights mobilization in 2006 and subsequent mobilizations in 2007 and 2008. Positing Chicago as a microcosm of the immigrant rights movement on national level! these essays plumb an extraordinarily rich set of data regarding recent immigrant rights activities! defining the cause as not just a local quest for citizenship rights! but a panethnic! transnational movement. The result is a timely volume likely to provoke debate and advance the national conversation about immigration in innovative ways. Zusammenfassung A multidisciplinary survey of the individuals! organizations! and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Amalia Flores-Gonzalez Pallares
• Assisted by: Nilda Flores-Gonzalez (Editor), Amalia Pallares (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2010
• EAN: 9780252077166
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07716-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas